Oct 4, 2012
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In Mark Zuckerberg’s world, lying is the only way to be yourself
But the fundamental problem with this crusade for accuracy is that people are complicated. You’re a very different person when you’re singing “Call Me Maybe” to yourself in the shower than you are when you’re at the bank applying for a mortgage, probably just as different as your laptop-ensconced self is now from were when you were doing Jackass stuff in your teens (teens: reverse that sentence to decode it). A super-famous observer of humans summed this sentiment up 157 years ago when he said “I contain multitudes;” a few thousand years before that an obscure philosopher noted, more universally, that the only constant is change.

In Mark Zuckerberg’s world, lying is the only way to be yourself

But the fundamental problem with this crusade for accuracy is that people are complicated. You’re a very different person when you’re singing “Call Me Maybe” to yourself in the shower than you are when you’re at the bank applying for a mortgage, probably just as different as your laptop-ensconced self is now from were when you were doing Jackass stuff in your teens (teens: reverse that sentence to decode it). A super-famous observer of humans summed this sentiment up 157 years ago when he said “I contain multitudes;” a few thousand years before that an obscure philosopher noted, more universally, that the only constant is change.
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